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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Throughout his career Manet included important still-life elements in his portraits, his genre scenes and in his pictures of modern life. For a brief period in the early 1860s he even painted a small number of still-lifes, like Fruit, but, unlike his friend Fantin-Latour, Manet never specialised in the genre. He only returned to it again, during the last two years of his life, when ill-health confined him to his studio. Manet's choice of subject, and the earthy and realistic way in which he has treated it, shows his debt to Courbet. Against an unrelieved, heavy, dark background three pieces of fruit are shown lying in a shallow, decorated, earthenware plate. Manet has painted the fruit using short, thick, blocky brushstrokes, realistically capturing their full and rounded forms and their earthy appearance. | Subjects: | still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Manet, Éduard (French painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1832-1883) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8295... | Go to resource |
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